AcpiTool is (yet another) Linux ACPI client. It's a small command-line application, intended to be a replacement for the apm tool. The primary target audience are laptop users, since these people are most interested in stuff like battery status, thermal status and the ability to put their precious laptop to sleep. Most of this does not apply to desktop systems.

The program simply accesses the /proc/acpi or /sysfs entries to get/set acpi values. Hence, you need a computer running a Linux kernel from the 2.4.x or 2.6.x series with acpi enabled, to use this program.

I also installed acpitool on my toshiba laptop, but it is a very old toshiba laptop.

I'd like to know if in the livecd of puppy4, is the vmlinuz-kernel generally acpi-enabled or not because I booted with "acpi=force" and acpitool says I have no acpi-extensions installed, not even Toshiba.

Does a tool exist that allows to enable acpi on laptops that may have a bios bug, being the reason why acpi is not detected by puppy?

This is a wonderful tool! Thank you so much. I think with a bit more research thyis is just what I have been looking for.

Interesting, on my T30 Thinkpad the -s suspends the lcd but not the backlight, of course that is done with the lid button but it is really interesting to see the strange patterns when the power is removed from the controller.

I will look into the sensors for these buttons and see if I can get it to work automatically.

I have not had a PupTop that suspended correctly since apm on the old 600e Thinkpads. This is a major step forward in Mobile Puppy. I am running 4.0 full hd.

Edit: I created a script to run the command and a hotkey F4 and that is good. The laptop wakes with the Fn key or when the lid is opened but there is a catch of the backlight staying on. After suspending, the cover switch does ot shut the backlight off.

Still searching but really hopeful
Edit2:
terminal in proc/acpi reports the following when the lid switch is pressed and released.

Who knows how to translate this information into commands?
If I could use the 5001 which shuts the backlight off and sleep2 then the acpitool -s it would be perfect._________________Questions? Search Puppy Linux Answers with Google

I've tried it on my Asus eeepc 701. the sleep command acpitool -s works. but the only way to wake it up is with tne powerbutton and the worst is after waking up the display is still dark. Maybe the backlight is off.

One problem that is not listed here: on my eee 701, I find my wireless dead after a resume. A scan reveals that no access points are available regardless of how many times I toggle the wireless card on and off. Anyone else with this problem?

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I've tried it on my Asus eeepc 701. the sleep command acpitool -s works. but the only way to wake it up is with tne powerbutton

Just for the record, the default xandros OS does this as well, so I think it is a hardware thing rather than something wrong with this. I actually like that it does this._________________

I had not installed the acpitool on my newest laptop with 3.01 and when I ran the suggested test from the thinkwiki

Code:

# echo mem > /sys/power/state

It suspended fine. I forgot that you need to use the Fn key to wake it up so I was a bit nervous for a minute. It still does not shut off the backlight. I have found there is an app called radeontool which does that. I will see if I can get that working next._________________Questions? Search Puppy Linux Answers with Google

Perhaps something is being improperly detected. Is there another tool that could give me more information or do I already have more than enough?[/code]_________________Questions? Search Puppy Linux Answers with Google

if you run lsmod does it show the toshiba_acpi module as being loaded? If not, try adding it to the Bootmanager list of modules to load, reboot, and see whether that makes any diff. (Menu->System->BootManager)

Another important note: This driver does not work on all Toshiba laptops, particularly those models which seem to have a BIOS or other firmware which was not developed by Toshiba itself. New reverse engineering work will have to be done on these machines, or Toshiba will have to disclose the necessary details. (For support of machines with Phoenx BIOS, try the [Omnibook driver].) The error you will see in this case is:

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